Emerge Labs Network Data Center Infrastructure...

As an Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our Federal, Intelligence and Defense customers. You will play a crucial role in supporting GDIT's ability to conduct internal research and development (IR&D) building Digital Accelerators, Platforms and Mission Solutions within Emerge Labs. Emerge Labs is a multi-tenant, hybrid, multi-cloud lab environment with physical datacenter spaces located at our Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus. In this role, you will:

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

• Lead the day-to-day engineering, operations, and maintenance of GDIT's Emerge Labs physical datacenters located in Falls Church, VA

• Collaborate with other Emerge Labs Engineers, Architects and Cybersecurity staff to meet IR&D datacenter requirements to include compute, storage, networking and virtualization capabilities.

• Drive process and procedures for managing our physical datacenter and onboarding tenant customers and appliances

• Create and maintain datacenter documentation including rack and network diagrams

• Conduct capacity planning and provide leadership recommendations for efficiently scaling services over time

• Utilize networking and virtualization capabilities from vendors including VMWare, Cisco, Palo Alto, Dell, Google, Azure and AWS.

5 + years of related experience, Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Infrastructure Specialist Principal must have:

• Education: Bachelor's degree (additional related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)

• Certifications: One or more Data Center networking and infrastructure certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, as well as one or more Data Center virtualization certifications such as VMWare (VCP)

• Experience: 5+ years of related experience

• Technical skills:

• Hands-on expertise managing multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure and services using VMWare

• Hands-on expertise with datacenter networking and firewall capabilities from Cisco and Palo Alto. Additional expertise with SD-WAN capabilities desired.

• Experience with hybrid, multi-cloud environments where physical datacenters leverage cloud services from AWS, Google or Azure.

• Expertise troubleshooting and resolving hardware issues for IT infrastructure devices

• Experience documenting datacenters, including creating and maintaining rack and network diagrams

• Experience with datacenter capacity planning

• US Persons, + The ability to lift, carry, push, or pull IT infrastructure equipment (servers, power supplies, vendor appliances, etc.)

The likely salary range for this position is $153,000 - $207,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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